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Something new arrives on July 14th. Come celebrate with us!

Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 07 Jul 2010

Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 07 Jul 2010

Mark your calendars. July 14th will be a big day for Evernote.

We’re making an announcement about something new. Something we’ve been working on for a little while. Something that will change the way you interact with Evernote, and, maybe even, change how you think about Evernote.

What is it? Well, you’ll just have to wait and see.

Party down

To celebrate our big announcement, we’re throwing a party in San Francisco. Come out and join us. You’ll get to see what’s new, meet the team, check out some really cool stuff, and unwind with a drink. What could be better? Oh, and there may be some fun giveaways and surprises, too.

I am looking forward to finding out! Should we start a comment thread guessing what it is?

My guess is… Hand writing notes through the iPad.

Smorris—

This would be spectacular! I am a mechanical designer, and can barely talk without drawing things. 😉 i’ve been fiddling with every note/drawing program out there, and have to email from my iPad or iPhone via PDF to Evernote. There’s got to be a better way!

Tying notes to the calendar ala ToDo would be a nice option.

I’m also hoping for password protection on the mobile versions, as I keep a bunch of personal info in Evernote, and don’t like locking the entire Pad/Pod.

It’s gonna be a long week until we find out!

Vinnie Harris—

Where’s the party in Austin? I want to party and celebrate with Evernote peoples! I want to know what the surprise is!

Dave—

Sure hope it’s a revamped web interface.

Nejc—

Tell us, TELL US!!! 😀

Andre Cunha—

Ok this is not fair. Tell me by e-mail, i promise I wont share.

LogopolisMike—

I just put this on my calendar and I live in Chicago. God, I’m such an Evernote dork.

Glenn—

At least your on the same continent Mike!…..It’s in my diary and I’m in Australia!

Deboni—

And me, I am an Evernote fan from Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alex—

… South Africa. Although I’m *from* the USA…. that counts right?

Amy—

My guess: An Evernote Brain Chip. Easily access any notebook just by thinking of it! They called Evernote your second brain, and now it’s literal.

Patrick Santana—

I looking forward for the news ….. Great!!!

Daniel—

Next time, don’t ruin the announcement with such an obvious spoiler in the image. I can clearly see that the “new” thing under the cloth is … a box! Product leaked.

In all seriousness though, I have been using Evernote more and more lately and I’m excited to see what this will be! Top wishlist items:

1) a full-on content editor (more robust word processing, styles and layout) in all versions of the Evernote client

Think, people. The photo clearly shows a large cube underneath the veil. What’s shaped like that? I think it’s a pygmy elephant in a cage.

Mr Wakiki—

these reminders are great

Eric—

Diigo-like web highlighting/annotation and bookmarking integration? And it works with Apple Spotlight and Google indexing on my PC? That would be epic. One app for everything I want to keep/remember.

Sheila—

Out of left field – task management(to-do list)

Alisha—

Maybe it’s a companion cube? I promise to never throw it into the fire!

Edward—

Is Evernote pregnant?

grehorst—

I know I know! Every premium subscription comes with a small table and a big red table cloth!!

John McLaughlin—

Tease!

Seriously — My guess:

Speech to Text — Voice memos are only marginally useful right now but if you could have audio automagically converted to searchable text — now that is something! It also fits the whole ‘image to text’ search feature for pictures & pdfs.

Just a thought … please make it a feature all users can use: desktop, mobile, free, premium…

Tom—

Is it a coming out party?

Jon—

Wow, I’m surprised we are 27 comments deep and I am the first to guess it’s recorded voice recognition and searchable voice notes (most likely from a partnership). Crossing my fingers! It would be even cooler if it translated your voice notes into text and imcluded both the text and original recording in the note.

Rob Parnell—

Well, I hope they don’t hookup with Jott’s transcription. Over a year ago, it was great and worked fantastic – no restrictions or “fancy complex business models,” in Jott.

Then, Nuance bought them, I just canned it two months ago. So horrible and worthless!! People in India transcribe your hard notes, then mark “cannot understand,” when feel tired working.
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Yes, I am betting on the Dropbox. Mentioned strongly in the Podcasts. Plus, a “true Evernote client” for BlackBerry is what I need! Don’t care about “on my phone notes,” and all that. However, would just love a “great editor” and shows text appropriately (as possible / if compatible enough? component) to the BlackBerry client, too. (new?!)

I think it will be true calendar functions, perhaps integrated with Gcal. I think many of the functions others are suggesting are coming too, eventually, but true calendaring would fundamentally change Evernote from a trusted, ubiquitous capture tool to a full scale time/project management tool. Oh great elephant, please, let it be.

Jeff Andrews—

Hoping for the ability to mark-up and annotate PDF documents…draw, highlight, notes…

Nijat—

For ipad : handwriting, formatting and folders.

Would make evernote irreplacable.

Nick—

Dropbox-like features? for those of us that can’t get rid of the concept of files?
http://dyve.posterous.com/evernote-ceo-phil-libin-hints-at-dropbox-inte
http://blog.evernote.com/2010/04/27/thinkwasabi-interview-with-evernote-ceo-phil-libin/

I like Jon’s idea too…but don’t they have that integration via reQall?

What about the ability to use Evernote by creating your own workflow (helpful for all those GTDers out there)?

georg—

publish-to-tumblr-button?

S2s—

I’m with Amy: My guess: An Evernote Brain Chip

iShustoff—

Dreaming about powerful todo.
Love Evernote!

Magnus—

I absolutely agee. ( with the need for a a to-do tool as well as the love for Evernote that is ) Evernote is a great tool for storing and categorising information. But the next logical step would be to look at what actions this information should inspire. Right now the to-do function is far from straightforward. I’m even using the quite backward method of creating a to-do tag for myself, as tags are easier to find.

Vance—

Yes, a real To Do function would be nice!! And a better Android app!

Eugene—

*humbly

reminders? 🙂

Dave—

I’m absolutely not kidding even a little bit when I say this: I will cry with joy if this is folders/sub-notes.

Larry—

If it’s just an iPad client, I will cry. That won’t change a thing for me, I’m an Android user! 🙁

Please be something awesome! 😀

Shelley—

I’ll be crying right along with you. I’m an iPhone user, but not an iPad user (and won’t likely be for a while,if ever, as I really can’t justify the purchase). If this big tease turns out to be iPad only, I’ll definitely be shedding tears of woe AND frustration. However, I don’t think the nice folks at Evernote would be that mean — I think the big announcement will be about something that will affect all their users. Fingers crossed that it is, as others have speculated, better ways to edit tables and text.

Steve Rose—

How exciting. Please don’t change Evernote too much though as I would be lost without it!

Steve Silverwood—

Hate to miss it but I’m stuck here in earthquake country, won’t be able to be up there for the big event. Someone quaff a couple of brews in my stead up there in toasting whatever the new arrival may be.

//Steve//

Arthur Vanderbilt—

I am guessing transcription or at least searchable voice notes.

I would prefer being able to link from one note to another.

Rob Parnell—

I agree Arthur,

Note Linking!!! So need it! Was never an issue with the Evernote of old.

Maybe, Dropbox will make it all possible. As long as, we all have free Dropbox accounts & stay under that 2 gig amount.

A funky URL activating “this note,” is here, would be great.

** Besides a highlighting tool. = The highlighter is so big to me, I would “turn off coloring text white,” for it! (Can’t read white text on white.)

Bobby B.—

I guess my top 3 wishes for it would be:

1st – Sharing on the rest of the clients (My girlfriend is now loving evernote!)

2nd – Voice recognition
3rd – iPad Handwriting recognition

Sharing sees to be the only thing big enough in my list, but I still don’t think it would be as big a deal as they are talking.

Anxious to see!!!

Lise—

My guess is transcription of voice notes to text. But I’d also like to see better ability to format notes and folders/bookshelves for Notebooks!!!!!

Also, if I RSVPed for the event, can’t I just come with the PDF of the ticket in EverNote??? Are you really going to make me print it?

🙂

Joseph—

Since it’s on a “random” day, i’d guess something that ties into Bastille Day (July 14) somehow? Yay for the French!

Allen—

I’m ashamed of all of you so-called teckies! It’s a cube. duh! The Borg have arrived on earth and picked Evernote to start the assimilation.

Resistance is futile! Evernote (and the Borg) rules!

Bobby B.—

So what time will we know what’s up? 6pm pacific? Or will we know earlier in the day? This is like waiting for an Apple keynote! I love Evernote!

Brad Carter—

To Do App: Make those checkboxes do something!

I predict they either bought Egretlist or made something even nicer.

Kim—

Wow – LOTS of great ideas. In addition to all of the above, I’d love the ability to enter info by barcode, using the scanner on my phone. On Saturday I saw a book I would love to give as a gift next Christmas. I was able to scan the barcode and add it to my Amazon Wish list. But to get it into Evernote, I took a picture through Evernote and then when I got home I used that note to find the book on my Amazon wish list and then added the Amazon page to Evernote with the tag “Gift” and added the name of the intended recipient to the note. I understand Springpad can already do this.

Eric—

Ideas…

1) Evernote appliance – Store, Search, etc all on your local network. Buy the hardware or install it on any NAS, or Drobo FS, or install it to any box running “Evernote OS” (an image that you can buy)

2) Dropbox integration? But the box (under the cloth) is clearly closed? Evernote bought Dropbox and is closing it and wants to watch everyone cry publicly.

3) They have created their own ADA for their Mac app since Apple didn’t make one this year!

4) Phil found Pandora’s box while he was on vacation.

Keith—

Couldn’t imagine life without Evernote. It remembers everything that I don’t!

It would be great if the announcement was shared Desktop Client Notebooks and/or the ability to have nested Notebooks.

Maybe that is why Google have abandoned their Notebook Program. They are integrating with Evernote. Lol.